povitica

plural poviticas

1. countableuncountableA Croatian potica.

   I love festive breads, from panettone to povitica, stollen to houska: they provide an opportunity to learn new flavours and techniques.

   2020 December 16, David Atherton, “David Atherton's recipe for festive plait”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2020

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   Chetna Makan continued her late surge by winning the technical challenge. Rightly so, as it was to bake an Eastern European povitica - a nutty bread-cum-cake hybrid which, by happy coincidence, she’d also done during the previous round.

   2014 September 24, Michael Hogan, “Great British Bake Off, BBC One, episode eight, review: 'tough and tense'”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2014

   My wife — with my assistance — bakes about a dozen loaves of the Croatian holiday bread povitica. […] These breads bring back deep memories for my mother, sisters and my mother’s two brothers, one of whom recently passed. He actually loved apple povitica.

   2024 December 12, Ryan Fonseca, quoting Michael Hotten, “Gold Rush 2.0? Why prospectors are returning to the Mojave Desert”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2024